Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, one of the greatest writers ever, explains in the below clip:
...the women who were ruled over by my grandmother were living in a supernatural world, a fantastic world, where everything was possible. The most unbelievable things were part of everyday life.
This is exactly what a good friend of mine told me about the years that she spent (in the 1990s) as a senior US diplomat in a Central American country.
See also Best Novels, and A Shout for Inclusion.
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